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l"62 The Aiustockacy of Southern India. The signal Tower on Dolphin's Nose is private property. It is an old observatory belonging to the Nursing Row's family ; it was put at our disposal for the exhibition of a lantern for the benefit of the shipping, but on the occasion of a cyclone, in October 1876, the light and portion of the house was destroyed, but the injury to the direct property was not in any way caused by the lantern or any marine interference.



I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) H. G. TUENEE, Acting Collector. ViZAGAPATAM DiSTEICT GAZETTE, Ut May 1886.

"It is hereby notified for the information of the public that Mr. A. V. Nursing Row has erected an expensive and durable Flagstaff on the Dolphin's Nose, and the time signals are now hoisted on it under his orders every morning between 8 and 9 o'clock to indicate time.

"The flags are hauled down at nine in the morning with great precision, and it is intended thereby to indicate the precise time of that hour not only for the information of persons whose distance from the Fort renders the report of the 9 p. m. time gun inaudible, but also to afford the Shipping in the Roads the means of finding the error of chronometers and to indicate the error of the time gun."